McCain Oopsapalooza Tour 9: Special Debate Edition

(Previous Oopsapaloozas here.)

Because, you know, McCain won the debate even though it hasn't happened yet!

Amazing how the Spiralling Vortex of Lies Talk Express can navigate the space-time continuum. I understand McCain's plane landed about 25 minutes before an announcement was made that Congress and the White House had almost reached an agreement.

Then, suddenly the agreement derailed. Coincidence?

McCain: Would rather win an election than let sensitive economic discussions that he doesn't understand anyway continue on without his meddling.

Dude, you need to bling up your yard.

Click on the yard sign to find out how to make or buy your own.

H/T LawyerMama, 5 O'Clock Shadow's DailyKos diary.

Lipstick, Pig Redux

John McCain makes Letterman feel "like an ugly date," stood up at the last minute (with video).

John McCain primping for a (tv) date. It costs McCain $5,583.34 to look this pretty.

Pretty on the Outside, Empty on the Inside

H/T Glennia.

Conservatives call for Palin to do the patriotic thing, and drop out.

H/T PunditMom via Twitter.

As even conservative talk show host Ed Schultz reports, Palin is #failin' at the mock debates and mock press conferences.

Breaking News from Big Eddie:
McCain Camp insiders say Palin "clueless"
Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people
are more than concerned about Palin. The campaign has held
a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as "disastrous." One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, "What are we going to do?" The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is "clueless."

H/T Excelsior1's DailyKos diary.

A Taste of the Scramble the Jets, Hurry Up and Wait Administration

That's some judgment there, John McCain. Choose a neophyte politico with whackadoo religious beliefs and NO foreign policy or national domestic economic background, "suspend" your campaign while running ads, making appearances, and having your surrogates everywhere, say the crisis is so severe you have to reschedule the debate with Obama, rush to DC and gum up the negotiations that will allow the rest of the world to believe the U.S. is still creditworthy, and at the actual meeting which YOU requested, say NOTHING.

Oh, and then return from DC having accomplished nada and agreeing to the debate after all.

That's just so...confidence inspiring? So profoundly not.

In nerdspeak:

John McCain = 1200 baud modem. All throughput, no added value, much hanging/static/screeching. And slow.

Obama?

Stayed cool, calm, collected. He'd foreseen the problems with subprime loans and mortgage-backed securities, along with many other Democrats, as early as 2007.

Enunciated principles for navigating this Wall Street-created crisis that are sensible, provide reasonable support to homeowners, and avoid the "moral hazard" of rewarding Wall Street gamblers for bad bets without getting in the way of the actual White House, Treasury, and Congressional negotiators. These date back to at least his Cooper-Union speech in March, 2008.

Reached out across the aisle to his fellow presidential candidate in a time of national crisis without losing integrity and respect from fellow Democratic Party members...i.e., put country first.

Cynematic blogs at P i l l o w b o o k. Obama-Biden '08 or bust!